User talk:Srsciullo

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Srsciullo. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Doug Bradley, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Apologies if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing from your username that you're the Stephanie Sciullo that you added to the article… YorkshireLad (talk) 17:22, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

I am married to Doug and added a personal fact as he is still listed as being married to someone who he hasn’t been married to for over a decade. In addition, Dougs ex wife Lynne did not carry his last name. Therefore, the information was incorrect to begin with. Srsciullo (talk) 17:24, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Wondering why you would be concerned about this anyway? Srsciullo (talk) 17:25, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I came across this as I was doing what Wikipedia calls recent changes patrol. There's nothing personal: I was just looking at a list of articles that had been recently updated, and noticed that you were editing an article about yourself, which isn't allowed without disclosure.  The article doesn't list him as being married to anyone, and doesn't mention anyone called Lynne, so I'm a little confused there.


 * Anyway, if you have a look at the relevant guideline, you'll see that you can edit the page (though are strongly discouraged from doing so), but you'd have to explicitly declare your conflict of interest on the article's talk page. You should also note that Wikipedia has a fairly strict policy about editing biographies of living persons, which means any editor (not just you) would need a citation to a reliable source to add your marriage to the article; otherwise it could be removed. YorkshireLad (talk) 17:34, 1 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I wasn’t aware that sitting here with my husband adding a fact to his Wikipedia page would warrant such a fuss being made about it. And “reliable source”? Would the reliable source(s) not be the two people who are claiming to be married? This is all very strange and unnecessary. How about the fact that people have gone in and edited his height and place of schooling? That wasn’t us!? This was apparently a friend of his who thought it funny, yet it remains there unquestioned. Srsciullo (talk) 17:42, 1 March 2020 (UTC)


 * So I can understand this is frustrating, but this policy is in place to protect your husband's page. There's the interaction of two separate policies here, and in fact the COI one is less relevant to the text that I removed (that's more there to prevent someone selectively editing a page to make it less neutral, which isn't particularly at issue here).  The reliable source policy is there because neither I nor anyone else knows that you are indeed Mr Bradley's wife, or indeed that your real name is SR Sciullo.  (In the same way, you don't know that I'm really from Yorkshire, or male, even though my username implies both!)  If this policy weren't there, any Tom, Dick or Sally could edit the page and claim to be his spouse, and when challenged, say, "But I'm his spouse, I should know!"


 * I'm not sure what you mean about his height: that doesn't seem to be on the page either. But his schooling does have reliable sources added, such as a biography of your husband from a page about a talk he gave at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.  If that was added by one of his friends, then they shouldn't have been editing, but the content was removed because it was unsourced, not really because of who added it.


 * As for what would constitute a reliable source: if, for instance, your husband's website said that he was married to you, that would count, and could be linked as a source. You'd still have to declare your COI on the talk page, though.  (Incidentally, if you'd like any more help or have any questions about editing Wikipedia—or perhaps want to complain about the fact that I reverted your edit!—you can ask at the Teahouse, a page that exists to help newly-joined Wikipedians.)  YorkshireLad (talk) 17:56, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

All you need to do is look at his social media pages and his website to see that I am who I say I am. Odd that those closest to the subject of a page or the subject themselves can’t make additions or changes, rather you’ll take information from those who have no connection. I see that you already removed our addition, so me continuing this conversation is useless. I’m sure you’re proud of your diligent work. Take care. Srsciullo (talk) 18:00, 1 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry you're unhappy. Like I said, I have no proof that you really are one of "the people closest to the subject", but, even if you were, it's pretty standard practice for reference works to be written by people other than the subjects of the articles.


 * I did, in fact, check Mr Bradley's website to see if I could use it as a source to add the information back in, but the "bio" section said it was "coming soon", so I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that you weren't mentioned on there. I know you said you didn't intend to reply further, but if you could point to where on the website you're mentioned I could maybe add the information back.  YorkshireLad (talk) 18:11, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

And you have no proof that I’m not. I am the only admin of his verified Facebook page. I am pictured and mentioned by name on his Website and I am pictured and mentioned on Instagram and in multiple articles and sources online. Out of curiosity, why did you remove the bit about Doug living in Pittsburgh as well? You can find endless sources of that being true. This is all very silly and I do believe I am done here. A thought crossed our mind to do this as we sat reading an article about a fellow actor friend which contained untrue information. Never imagined that would turn into an hour long back and forth. You removed the information. You apparently did your job. We are done here. Thanks for the information. Srsciullo (talk) 18:25, 1 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Apologies to bother you further, but since you asked: I just undid the edit, which removes everything. But you're right, that information is well-sourced on the internet, so I've added his residence back to the page. YorkshireLad (talk) 18:33, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate that bit at least. Additionally, if you go to the “about” section of his verified Facebook page you will see me listed as his wife. Srsciullo (talk) 18:40, 1 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I've added that too now.


 * Incidentally, I'm wondering if you thought his ex-wife was on here because you searched on Google for "Doug Bradley wife", or something like that, and she came up? That happened to me; I have absolutely no idea where that information on Google is coming from, but it's not Wikipedia!  YorkshireLad (talk) 19:15, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Seems as though we’ve done a lot of unnecessary typing then. Lol. Thank you for that. No, it was just a basic google search for Doug Bradley when we did when trying to get to his wiki page. It’s very odd. Seems very wrong that there’s false information that nothing can be done about. Like I said, even when he was married to her, her last name was not Bradley. We’re not on a warpath of any kind to erase any history of that but simply wanted to add updated information. Anyway, thank you for helping sort things out. Take care. Srsciullo (talk) 19:34, 1 March 2020 (UTC)